"Giant"(1956)
Starring (Character): Rock Hudson (Jordan "Bick" Benedict), James Dean (Jett Rink) , Elizabeth Taylor ( Leslie Lynnton Benedict), Mercedes McCambridge (Luz Benedict older), Dennis Hopper(Jordan Benedict III), Chill Wills (Uncle Bawley Benedict).
Director: George Stevens.
Producer: George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg.
Screenwriter: Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat.

  This is one of benchmark movies, which shows the dawn of the next generation. Rock Hudson plays a role who is struggling with the new wave and adopted it.Elizabeth Taylor, also a great actress, plays a modern woman who brings a new wave to the old and rich Texas family.In this movies, Mexicans are a subject to discrimanate from white American. Also, women are in the same boat. This movie is a great, why it tells us the historical background--in the US in 1950s many people were discriminated by gender and ethnicity.James Dean plays a ambitious young guy, who become to be a Texas oil millionaire.

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Academy Awards in 1956 (29th)
ACTOR
Nominee/RecipientFilm
James Dean
Rock Hudson
Yul Brynner
Kirk Douglas
Sir Laurence Oliver
Gaint
Gaint
The King and I
Lust for Life
Richard III
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Nominee/RecipientFilm
Mickey Rooney
Don Murray
Anthony Perkins
Anthony Quinn
Robert Stack
The Bold and the Brave
Bus Stop
Friendly Persuasion
Lust for Life
Written on the Wind
ACTRESS
Nominee/RecipientFilm
Ingrid Bergman
Carroll Barker
Nancy Kelly
Debrah Kerr
Katharine Hepburn
Anastasia
Baby Doll
The Bad Seed
The King and I
The Rainmaker
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Nominee/RecipientFilm
Mildred Dunnock
Eileen Heckart
Patty McCormack
Mercedes McCambridge
Dorothy Malone
Baby Doll
The Bad Seed
The Bad Seed
Giant
The Writen on the wind
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White)
FilmNominee/Recipient
the Magnificent Seven
The Proud and the Profane
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Teenage Rebel
Takashi Matsuyama
Hal Pereira, A. Earl Hedric
Ross Bellah
Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown
Lyle R.Wheeler, JAck martin Smith
ART DIRECTION(Color)
FilmNominee/Recipient
Around the Worl in 80 Days
Giant
The King and I
Lust for life
The Ten Commandments
James W. Sullivan, Ken Adam
Boris Leven
lyle R. Wheeler, Jhon DeCuir
Cedric Gibbons, Hans Perters, Preston Ames
Hal Pereira, Walter H.Tyler, Albert Nozaki
BEST MOTION PICTURE
FilmNominee/Reciient
Around the World in 80 Days
Friendly Persuasion
Giant
The King and I
The Ten Commandments
Michael Todd
William Wyler
George Stevens, Henry Ginsberg
Charles Brackett
Cecil B. DeMille
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Black-and-White)
FilmNominee/Recipient
Baby Doll
The Bad Seed
The Harder They Fall
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Stagecoach to Fury
Boris Kaufman
Hal Rosson
Burnett Guffey
Joseph Ruttenberg
Walter Strenge
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color)
FilmNominee/Recipient
Arounf the World in 80 Days
The Eddy Duchin Story
The King and I
The Ten Commandments
War and Peace
Lionel Lindon
Harry Stradling
Leon Shamroy
Loyal Griggs
Jack Cardiff
COSTUME DESIGN (Black-and-White)
FilmRecipient
The Magnificent Seven
The Power and the Prize
The Proud and the Profane
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Teenage Rebel
Kohei Ezaki
Helen Rose
Edith Head
Jean Louis
Charles LeMaire, Mary Willis

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